Descript |
159p. |
Contents |
Lord Berners, artist, author, musician and wit ; Caraboo, itinerant servant-girl and impostor ; Aleisteir Crowley, author and magician ; The Earl Bishop of Derry, the edifying bishop ; Sir George Sitwell, aristocratic observer of life ; Mary Kingsley, Victorian lady traveller ; Sir Tatton Sykes, a helpless eccentric ; Thomas de Quincey, Bohemian writer and opium-eater ; Ouida, society novelist ; Squire Waterton, naturalist and inventive taxidermist ; Jack Mytton, the mad squire of Halston ; William Beckford of Fonthill Abbey, sensational romantic ; Julia Margaret Cameron, early genius of the camera ; Algernon Charles Swinburne, sick visionary, drunk with poetry ; Romeo Coates, the celebrated amateur of fashionLord Berners, artist, author, musician and wit ; Caraboo, itinerant servant-girl and impostor ; Aleisteir Crowley, author and magician ; The Earl Bishop of Derry, the edifying bishop ; Sir George Sitwell, aristocratic observer of life ; Mary Kingsley, Victorian lady traveller ; Sir Tatton Sykes, a helpless eccentric ; Thomas de Quincey, Bohemian writer and opium-eater ; Ouida, society novelist ; Squire Waterton, naturalist and inventive taxidermist ; Jack Mytton, the mad squire of Halston ; William Beckford of Fonthill Abbey, sensational romantic ; Julia Margaret Cameron, early genius of the camera ; Algernon Charles Swinburne, sick visionary, drunk with poetry ; Romeo Coates, the celebrated amateur of fashion. |
ISBN |
0718113462 |
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